Hi! I know I didn’t write anything for a long time but now I am back again. The good thing about this long “silence” on my blog is that I’ve been really busy helping customers to deploy Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. This is awesome because the general...

Recently i found several customers that are running Hyper-V R2 under AMD Family 10h processors and they experienced server reboots on the source host that start the migration. There isn’t any information on the event viewer or any dump cause the root...

Hello again! During the last week I did some test with the script and I realize that is not handy to type a bunch of server names when you need to analyze big Clusters, so i decided to create a V2 of the script specifically for Clusters. I think this...

Would you want to know what version of Hyper-V are you running right now? This is a table to make a fast relationship between your current VMBUS.SYS version and the corresponding Hyper-V level. Remember to upgrade the ICs of your VMs after applying...

Hello, I am glad to announce the RTM release of the Hyper-V Management Pack Extensions for Hyper-V. The main purpose of this custom Management Pack for Hyper-V is to extend the official Management Pack and provide performance monitoring. Note that...

Continuing the Networking Series with Virtual Machine Queues. In this table you will find what registry keys and settings must be configured to make it work. Again, remember that you can use this script to validate these settings . Virtual Machine...

Hello again, Today I am starting to share with you some presentations that I’ve done during the last year for our Spanish customers. The presentations are in Spanish but feel free to contact me if you need a translated version. P2V with SCVMM presentation...

Hello virt community, Today I am happy to announce that a great resource was born few days ago. The World Wide Virtualization PFE team decided to share experiencies and best practices to the Virtualization Community. It’s going to be a nice resource...

Hello again and happy 2011. Coming back from holidays I’ve decided to contribute to the community with one useful Powershell script to parse Hyper-V BPA reports on HTML. You can run it with Powershell on Full or Server Core. Don’t forget to run...

Once you have configured each feature on your Hyper-V Servers maybe you are wondering how they interact with each other. In the following table you are going to see how each feature interacts with others under Windows Server 2008 R2. As I already...

On this last post I am going to talk about what counters should be used to monitor the Network performance of your Virtual Machines, your Virtual Switches and your Physical Network Adapters . Performance monitor is a very powerful tool that is included...

2011 is finishing and I am really happy to see how Microsoft Virtualization is being consolidated and adopted by thousands of customers around the globe. 2012 promise to be an exciting year with the launch of Windows Sever 8 and SCVMM 2012 so let...

Hello Hyper-V fans!
As you know, Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V is available since past October and comes with hundreds of new features and improvements. Today I want to give you a small bite of what you can do with the new native PowerShell module...

Hi again, In my last post I explained how to list all your virtual disks from one standalone Hyper-V Host. Today I want to give you an example of how to get all your virtual disks information from all your Hyper-V hosts that are part of a cluster. Powershell...

Hello Virtual community! Today I am happy to announce the release of the Hyper-V Management Pack Extensions for Hyper-V 2012. The current release is on beta and waiting for your feedback. We did all the possible test in some environments but now is time...

Good morning from some European airport! Is always funny to write while waiting for the plane… ;) Today I want to recommend you two new books available for Hyper-V 2012 with deep technical content. I enjoy and use them as reference sometimes while at...

CSV (Cluster Shared Volumes) volumes were introduced with Windows Server 2008 R2 to enable simultaneous access to the same LUN from several Hyper-V Host, using a common name space called ClusterStorage and allowing to store several VMs by providing them...

Hello Virtualization Community, I am happy to announce that we have published the last release of the Hyper-V Management Pack Extensions with support for Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V . Please update your current HyperVMPE 2012 with this latest release...

Hi Virtualization gurus, Since 6 months now, I’ve been working on the internal readiness about Hyper-V Networking in 2012 R2 and all the options and functionalities that exists and how to make them work together and I realize that a common question in...

As an IT guy I have the strong belief that engineers understand graphics and charts much better than bullet points and text, so the first thing I will do is to paste the following diagram At first sight you can recognize from left to right that there...

Following the same rule from the previous post about Non Converged Network Architectures, let me add the diagram first and elaborate my thoughts from there As you can see, in this diagram there are only 2 x 10 GB Physical Network cards. This hardware...

Ok. We have discussed the pros and cons of Non-Converged Networks and Converged Networks with SCVMM 2012 R2 in the last two blogs, but what happens when you already have a third party technology that already provides QoS in the Backend? There are several...

Part 4 of this series covered the scenario where the Backend QoS had to be Static. Now let’s take a look to what is becoming more common nowadays with Dynamic QoS. Take a look to the following picture… Today, most vendors already offer Dynamic QoS based...

The last Hyper-V Network Architecture that I want to discuss is when the hardware combines the Ethernet network with the FC Storage connection over Ethernet using Converged Network Adapters (CNAs). The main purposes of this type of adapters is to reduce...